Making Sense of Life

Pegman this week takes us to the fascinating city of Montevideo in Uruguay. Are you inspired to write a 159 word story prompted by this city ? Here’s mine.

WHO IS HE ?

‘I tell myself : Ricky you made it here at last. Montevideo. With just a few pesos to spare. Wow, look at that gorgeous food stall, makes me hungry.

I walked away from their narrow minds, their mockery, their machismo…they said : Ricky you’re different, too soft, not one of us. You are an outsider, they said. OK, so I stepped outside their small world and came here. What a city. I’ve never seen such a great mix of people. There’s different rhythm here, I can feel my pulse quicken, powered by its energy, its possibilities.

Hey, someone’s looking at me, he’s approaching…’

” Hi, I’m Mateo and who are you ?”

“Ricki, I just got here..”

“You hungry ? Like a choripan ? Let’s go and get some…I can show you some good places to go to in the city.”

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I enjoy making quirky and kind observations about other peopleand about places. I write short word sketches about certain situations that feel significant to me, I draw little cartoons. I reflect on particular t.v programmes, films and books as they grab my interest

11 thoughts on “Montevideo Uruguay 11.8.18 WHO IS HE ? pegman”

I was wondering if you had his named spelled different when he replied (i and not y) for a reason.
I liked hte cheery ending – as opposed to what Dale and I felt could happen.. ha
and you know, it is different – but the way you wrote about Ricky’s feeling at home (that freedom) was how I felt the day i drove into Denver Colorado in August 1993.
The bit of rust on the highway felt like Buffalo – and the mountains welcomed me and then the people were kin!

it was my new home – and was for ten years – and still my favorite place to have lived – but too far from family and also – landlocked (#need the sea)
anyhow,
love this “feel my pulse quicken”
this fiction reminds us all to make sure we stay alive while living –

Well, your description of Ricky hints that he’s perhaps effeminate. With Mateo hitting on him so quickly, I can’t help wondering if Mateo is a sexual predator. After all, if you had made your main character a young woman, a man approaching her like Mateo does Ricky would be alarming, wouldn’t you say?

francine angelcakes

I enjoy making quirky and kind observations about other peopleand about places. I write short word sketches about certain situations that feel significant to me, I draw little cartoons. I reflect on particular t.v programmes, films and books as they grab my interest

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